This is what I wrote back on 10th June 2011 about Andrew Bolt:
I am becoming more convinced that Bolt is not a conservative, but more like a salesman looking to plug a gap in a market
And this is what I wrote back on 14th June 2011 about Andrew Bolt:
…he champions the conservative cause like an entrepreneur seeking to fill a gap in a market….It tends to suggest that AB merely goes where there is a market for opinion. Currently it is conservative opinion on a few national headline issues.
I had good rational well reasoned arguments for making the above claim. My posts were not part of some ‘loose with the truth’ smear campaign, but designed to discuss issues Bolt raised which seemed outside the conservative mainstream. This lead me to question if Bolt was a conservative at all. Some conservatives disagreed with me, however I have documented a number of examples which may change your mind.
Turn now to the left-wing Monthly magazine and their publication this month of an article about Bolt. This is from the Age newspaper interviewing the author of the article Anne Summers of what appears to be a smear campaign, nothing more or less, against Bolt.
ANDREW Bolt is an opportunist who saw a gap in the market for right-wing opinion in the Fox News style and set out to fill it, according to a profile in the latest issue of The Monthly magazine by Anne Summers.
Oh really? Wonder where that idea came from. It goes on:
”There was no shortage of people filling the left-hand side [of political opinion], I told him, but there was a shortage of people of the right. He responded by saying, ‘Yes, there is a shortage in that area, maybe I can fill that space.’
You decide.
UPDATE
Apparently the article has been removed/disowned by the magazine.